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#280CharAbstracts: Asuman Lätzer-Lasar explores ethical challenges of moving images in immersive learning. Reconstructions may distort understanding if not critically reflected upon. Teachers need to foster visual literacy.

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#Archaeology #Ethics
The Forum Romanum. Photo by Embla Munk Rynkebjerg on Unsplash.
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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#280CharAbstracts: @jensnotroff.com & @oliverdietrich.bsky.social introduce us to #scicomm for archaeology,which they see as a chance instead of a chore: Creating a blog helped the project to react immediately to pseudoscience claims. #openaccess

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A person typing on a computer.
December 3, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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#280CharAbstracts: Michaela Stark examines the use of serious games & 3D interaction in museums and teaching. These tools open new ways of engaging with archaeology, but also pose challenges for sustainability and accessibility.

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#Archaeology #Museums
Museum 3D: View inside the Roman house (desktop version). (Viewport Unreal Engine; 3D visualisation: T. Jung).
November 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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#280CharAbstracts: 🏺 @archaeobasti.bsky.social and S. van der Heyden compare their understanding of monumentality from their viewpoints: as an archaeologist and as a art historian. While writing this chapter, they learned from the others perspective. #openaccess

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A glimpse inside of a monumental building: the Pantheon!
December 17, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: Sebastian Hageneuer argues that video games are not only a source for archaeology but also a medium through which archaeology can be taught. Archaeogaming bridges research, teaching & popular culture.

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Screenshot of the game "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" (1992).
February 8, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: Stefan Feuser discusses the potential and limits of immersive & browser-based VR for teaching archaeology. While VR can open new perspectives, it faces practical & pedagogical constraints.

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#Archaeology #VR
January 31, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: Stefan Krmnicek & Kevin Körner present *Graveler*, a serious game for numismatic teaching. It helps students explore coins interactively, linking play with academic learning.

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Roman town house with the dipinto “Romanes Eunt Domus” (Level “Roman metal extraction and minting”).
February 12, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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#280CharAbstracts: Christoph Rinne explores how Markdown & coding practices foster open source, interactivity & accessibility in teaching—especially for Windows users.

🔗https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572.c23244

#DigitalHumanities #OpenSource
Screenshot from JupyterLab
March 6, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: S. N. Autenrieth and D. von Boekel investigate why the destruction of architectural monuments and pictorial works occurs during times of change in the UK, Mesoamerica, Germany, Afghanistan and Syria, both in the past and in the present day. #OpenAccess

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Bamyan, the destroyed site without the buddhas. Photo by Zabihullah Habibi on Unsplash
August 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: I discuss how to present archaeological #3DReconstruction to a broader audience & show examples of the past & present. Beside the visually pleasing effects, #scicomm is often neglected. #openaccess

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Reconstruction of Pi-Ramesses. © artefacts-berlin.de
March 19, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: Maria Shinoto emphasizes text literacy as a core skill in archaeology. Digital tools open new possibilities for analyzing and teaching textual sources in innovative ways.

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#Archaeology #TextualStudies
A laptop on a table
February 19, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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#280CharAbstracts: 👩‍🏫 Martina Trognitz argues that teaching archaeology must include data literacy. Good data management, FAIR principles & Open Science should be exemplified by instructors and practiced by students.

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#Archaeology #Data
Graphic explaining the research data lifecycle. Source: Martina Trognitz, CC BY 4.0
September 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: E. Holter & S. Schwesinger simulate the sound distribution in open spaces in classical #Athens. With the help of #VR, the user can listen to a public speaker from different points with varying options. #openaccess

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Screenshot of the VR app by the authors showing a group of people listening to a speaker.
January 23, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: 🏺 @archaeobasti.bsky.social & H. Franzmeier show, how to get from excavation data to a #3DReconstruction for an exhibition or research. They showcase this with the example of Pi-Ramesse in #Egypt, capital of Ramesses II. #openaccess

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This is a visualisation of Pi-Ramesse. Main view of the central island with canal and internal lake.
May 21, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: 🏺 Stephan Quick uses digital media in an open-air archaeological park and shows how these aid in experiencing the #Roman past. 3DReconstructions reveal the monumentality of the site of #Xanten in the past. #openaccess

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Model of the Colonia Ulpia Traiana in the scale of 1:350. © O. Ostermann, LVR-APX.
November 5, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: @DelitzHeike and F. Levenson discuss the social significance of great architecture and the sociology of #monumentality. They compare nomadic architecture with medieval cathedrals and the ritual topography of Uruk.

#openaccess

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This image shows the 3D visualisation of the Bit Resh in detail. A massive white temple surrounded by courtyards and walkways. People walking in front of the temple seem insignificant. © artefacts-berlin.de
April 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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#280CharAbstracts: M. Remmy presents his experiences using #geocaching software. Students of #archaeology and DH have developed new games that guide the user through modern Cologne. #archaeogaming

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Photo of Cologne
February 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: 🏺 Andrew A. White discusses group mobility of hinter-gatherers. He uses an agent-based model to explore different factors influencing the mobility, that traditionally is based on lithic artefact distribution. His model shows otherwise
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Chui steppe of Altai mountains in Russia. Photo by Konstantin Dyadyun on Unsplash
September 3, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: 🏺 Jeremy Smoak & Alice Mandell explore the monumentality of inscriptions in Jerusalem’s urban spaces and thereby also texts themselves. These convey memories within a larger political or social narrative than architecture. #openaccess

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A picture of the city of Jerusalem. Photo by Raimond Klavins on Unsplash
May 28, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: Juan Hiriart developed a game, where you play the head of an Anglo-Saxon family learning about cultural meanings and traditions.The game was successful when engaging empathetically. @ubiquitypress #openaccess #Archaeogaming #ComPDA 🏺 🕹️ 🔗 doi.org/10.5334/bch.k
Screenshot of the game developed by J. Hiriart showing an Anglo-Saxon house
June 11, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: S.C. Schmidt describes here what #percolation analysis is and how it is used to cluster data and create wonderful informative maps. It is a useful approach at very different scales. If you are interested, have a look here. #Archaeology 🏺

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An example of a graph exported for this kind of analysis.
April 9, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: @idhrenil & @ArchaeoBasti investigate the energetic cost of buildings in ancient #Uruk & Habuba Kabira. #Monumentality - in their opinion - is not always the same or better: some buildings are more monumental than others. #openaccess

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Plot showing mass of different materials used in constructing buildings in Uruk.
November 14, 2023 at 2:22 PM
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#280CharAbstracts: K. White & R. Lane discuss the way in which #monuments can be formed by being part of a larger area or a system. Monuments were not single points of interest, but able to expand to regional space & stabilize populations. #openaccess

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Peru. Photo by Eduardo Flores on Unsplash
September 5, 2023 at 11:28 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: F. Levenson describes different perspectives on monuments and monumentality & how a definition of the latter can possibly look like. He also tackles the permanence of memory and proposes an answer what makes a monument.
#openaccess

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A photo of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelone, Spain. Photo by Mohammad Edris Afzali on Unsplash
September 26, 2023 at 10:45 AM
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#280CharAbstracts: The Emotive Project introduces a multi-component digital kit for using learning environments to foster prehistoric empathy in young people for #culturalheritage.

@ubiquitypress #openaccess
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Screenshot of the ChatBot created by the project.
February 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM